Nokia and Foursquare team up on revamped app for Windows Phone 8

Here’s a little secret that’s not many have caught on, but Nokia and Foursquare have tag teamed to re-do the official Foursquare app and no joke, it’s quite awesome. It’s the Foursquare app that Windows Phone deserves (we still love 4th & Mayor, but official apps should set the bar themselves).

Nokia released a self branded Foursquare app last year, which differed very little, but now it's clear the two were already collaborating for something bigger.

Due out sometime this spring (possibly in March), the app is fast, fast, fast. New features include app speech integration with TellMe for searches, NFC for both check-ins as, friend requests and to share plans and app-to-app integration so that HERE Maps work directly from within the app.

The bigger deal is for Nokia Lumia owners as there will be two versions of this app: one for all Windows Phone 8 devices and one for Nokia Lumia phones, which will of course have one major feature: Augmented Reality. Yup, Nokia’s CityLens-like experience will be coming to Foursquare as well, which makes sense since the company has opened their API to other developers. In fact, we’ve already seen this with Weather and the Groupon app for Lumias, with the latter going wide for all Windows Phone 8 devices recently.

The new app is simply gorgeous looking and those maps are just super fluid. We’ve always appreciated the look of the old Foursquare app but this new one with Nokia’s guidance has really set the bar. In addition, Windows Phone users can start to experience having all of the latest Foursquare features brought to Windows Phone 8 on time instead of trailing the competition.

How excited are we? We’re giddy but don't take our word, watch the video demo yourselves!

lol, nice Daniel, but seriously where does Nokia have all this cash to invest in all these partnerships? Is this part of Nokia's deal with Microsoft? Awesome they are helping major devs make updates to their apps. Also, do you know what games DreamWorks is hoping to publish second half of the year for lumia phones? Haven't seen an article on wpcentral yet.
As a side rant, these apps, lenses, augmented reality, 3D printing etc. must be beyond the schizophrenic nature of the stock market. Sold down Nokia today because they didn't launch any hero devices. These additions are all quite awesome and will position Nokia to grow in the future.
Thanks Daniel to you and Jay for covering such great stories.

Awesome. Something in the back of my head suggests that Nokia is probably pushing through with multiple key social-networking apps (e.g. Tumblr) for its WP line. Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if they're looking to line Flipboard up as well.

I would consider becoming a Nokia fanboy if they manage to secure Flipboard. The app is was awesome on the little time I spent with Android. I can only imagine what could be done with it built specifically for Windows Phone.

It's so great to see Nokia doing something like this. Very cool! The official Foursquare app was horrendous, so I'm glad they're revamping it. I hope Nokia will continue working with other developers to fine tune and revamp apps that really need it. I'm looking at you Facebook and Twitter.
I left the WP8 platform a few months ago. I loved my 920, but I definitely couldn't comit to the platform just yet. I'm hoping that when Nokia announces the 41mp Catwalk/Laser/Whatever lumia phone, that I'll be back on that platform.

Really excited, looks great. Not that I dislike 4th and Mayor it hasn't been updated in a long time and doesn't have feature parity with iOS/Android 4square apps. Hopefully this Nokia collaboration changes that.

I too would like to see MS jumpstarting development for key apps. Maybe they could have a team of developers that create version 1.0 for certain targeted services (instagram) and then turn the app's source code over to the company to maintain going forward as well as some knowledge transfer to the company's developers.

It would be oh-so-awesome! But... it wouldn't surprise me if we don't get it, we didn't even get HERE Maps or the revamped Live Tile on Whatsapp, and that is something REALLY minor.
I was OK with Windows Phone 7.8 until WP8 devices arrived in Argentina, but app developers are boldening more and more the line between the two generations, I would just settle for a Foursquare update that changes the UI to the WP8 one and fixes bugs, but, I guess it won't happen

I've come to the conclusion that any real Windows Phone 7.8 support is dead. Even more so with low end Windows Phone 8 devices like the Nokia 520. It sucks as a 900 owner but oh well nothing I can do at this point.

Shame, since the 900 is a great device. Windows Phone is moving fast, which is fine, but here we just got the Lumia brand past year, and the LG Optimus 7 passed straight under the radar to be noticed when it arrived in 2010.

Let's just hope that WP8 lasts long enough to allow us to get a phone that lasts more than 3 months without getting obsolete.

Any word on if we will see this soon? Original rumors were March but were now into April. Foursquare just announced a new and improved iPhone app so I am hopping the WP 8 version discussed here isn't far behind.